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We have been accelerating our efforts to bring data and
network sciences to young people, including students at the Cisco Networking
Academy at Chelsea CTE High School. We are working with our final cohort of
network science students and will be doing the summative evaluation of the NSF
ITEST funded NetSci High program in the spring and look forward to sharing the
outcomes when they are available. All anecdotal evidence suggests that this
program is extremely successful, and we are working on ways to make the program
sustainable through expanding professional development for teachers, developing
curricula for direct in-class, online, and hybrid instruction.

As part of this effort, we are developing a set of Network
Literacy Essential Concepts and Core Ideas in collaboration with the global
network science community, which will form the basis for what every 21st
century citizen should know about networks. We will soon have a draft of
these up on a new NetSciEd website.

Most recently, we have secured a small supplemental award
from NSF to bring all our NetSci High students and teachers to the 6th
International Workshop on Complex Networks, which we are hosting
in March 2015. The NetSci High students will present their posters at CompleNet
and will discuss their work with attendees, and will attend the entire
conference and be able to network with some of the top researchers in the
Network Science field, including some of the founders of the field such as Reka
Albert and Mark Newman. CompleNet will include an “Art of Networks” exhibition
as well as a public event that we are calling “Big Data Fest,” which will be a
public event for our NYSCI family visitors. Our network science high school
students and teachers will be involved in Big Data Fest, along with a number of
outside organizations that are doing big data and network science related work.
The Cisco Networking Academy students and teachers will be there throughout
CompleNet and Big Data Fest.